Summary: Wanna enjoy Blu-ray movies on Windows Media Center? This tutorial will teach you how to play Blu-rays in WMC.

Windows Media Center is a digital video recorder and media player developed by Microsoft. It is an application that allows users to view and record live television, as well as organize and play music and videos. Users can stream television programs and films through selected services such as Netflix. While enjoying broadcast and Internet TV on PC with ease, users may plan to put Blu-ray movies to Media Center for playback. This article will teach you how to watch Blu-ray movies on Windows Media Center.

Apart from its very heavy copy protection, you can only play Blu-Ray discs in a few choice desktop computer programs, most of which cost a lot of money. Luckily, video encoding has come a best way for users to enjoy movies in Windows Media Center. By ripping your Blu-Rays, you can still get that amazing HD quality on any computer you want—no expensive software required.

There are a lot of different methods for ripping and encoding Blu-Rays. Combed through the options to pull together the simplest, working method, we found a best Ripper program named Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper, which is much professional on dealing with commercial BDs as well as DVDs into common video formats for playing and editing. In addition, its built-in editing functions can help users to do some basic editing before conversion, such as trimming, cropping, adding watermark and so on. Now, download the software on PC and follow the guide below to start conversion.

How to Rip Blu-ray to WMV for Windows Media Center

Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc

Insert your Blu-ray into driver, and add your Blu-ray disc via "Load" button to the app. This program also supports DVD discs and DVD/BD folder.

Step 2: Choose output format

Click on the dropdown menu of "Format" and then move your pointer to "HD Video">> "DivX HD (*.avi)" or WMV HD (*.wmv), AVI HD Video(*.avi), they are compatible with Windows Media Center.

Step 3: Advanced video/audio settings

If you are still not satisfied with the defaulted profile settings , you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish.

Step 4: Start conversion

Hit the convert button and start Blu-ray to WMC conversion.

When the conversion completes, you will be able to get the result video via "Open" button. After that, you can stream or transfer the converted Blu-ray videos to Windows Media Center for smooth playback at ease without any problem.

Source: Can't load Blu-ray disc into Windows Media Center

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